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[CoventryCat86]

Wow Mark! It's great to hear a first hand experience about India.

I know I bust yer nuts about long winded posts but I found this fascinating! Please tell us more if you get a chance.

[Shelby07]

Wow Mark! It's great to hear a first hand experience about India.

I know I bust yer nuts about long winded posts but I found this fascinating! Please tell us more if you get a chance.

I can tell you about the things I have seen, but if here's one thing I've realized in India, it's that my own perception of the world is at the best skewed, and at worst totally inaccurate. I find myself questioning everything about what I knew to be true and I'm seeing everything in a different (albeit confusing) light.

The people and the culture are very different. What at first seems primitive turns out to be quite clever and even ingenious. Their view of reality is molded by experiences I can never know or understand. The best I can do is try to work within it, but it is confusing to say the least. I have learned just how narrowly focused my own view of the world is (it seems that someone here might have mentioned that to me in the past .) I wouldn't say the blinders are off, but it seems that I'm trying to turn my head a bit more often.

So, it appears that I am learning more about myself than India or the people there. It's difficult for me to get up in the morning and try to function in a space where I seem to be throwing out every assumption I've ever had about people. The one thing I do know is that I'm not as smart as I thought I was a few months ago. But if that has opened me up to seeing things differently, then I can't complain. I think it's going to be a fascinating experience. It's why I can't wait to get back.